Are you kidding me? Hell yes I ordered one. Regular $73, now $40 delivered with snap on hardware.

Now my cooler locks the lid, locks to a secure surface via chain, rolls anywhere with one person, and has all the hacks that make it more efficient and useable. Plus I can sit on it in comfort. Is this a great country or what?

It's not my invention, but it is very clever. A fellow that goes by http://www.ebay.com/usr/cooler*innovations has invented and sells these add on minimal wheels that make a heavy and clumsy Rtic Cooler easily mobile for one person. I have ordered one. $110 shipped.

As you can see, the small cleats set into the foot hollows. It is further secured with a tie down strap.

I hate a thief. This cooler cost me $199 and it is a clone of the $400 Yeti. The white metal bracket off of Ebay at $8 makes it possible to add a padlock. This cooler will be locked to a chain when not in storage. The contents can be padlocked at either end of the cooler.

I added a bottle opener at each end for my fancy boy friends who insist on craft and imported beers.

The biggest complaint of this cooler has been the latches do not stay in place like the Yeti. Cry me a river. I installed 4 .25 cents washers and it's now just like the Yeti.

The weakest link in the insulation is the drain plug. Not any more. $1.09 and a #4 rubber stopper provided an additional layer of leak protection and insulation by providing a gap between the inside and outside drain.

I decided to go ahead and buy the divider, $14, and the top basket $9 (in route) to give me options when camping and smaller tailgates.

Now I'm set until I can figure out how to install a quality cup holder. Yeti wants $25 for one cup holder!

I had to run an errand this afternoon that took me to my hometown of Midland, passing the new BBQ place. I could see the pit was fired up. It was necessary for me to stop, since I know no stranger, and I love all thing BBQ.

Jessie Jones was at the pit cooking a whole hog. He welcomed me like an old friend. We talked BBQ for the next 30 minutes while I breathed in the wonderful aromas.

One never asks a pit master for a peek. The saying goes, "If you're looking, it ain't cooking", so I didn't consider asking for a peek.

His pride took over and he offered a glimpse one he has ascertained my sincere enthusiasm for his craft.

Last night I cooked a lowly beef bottom round in the oven at 325. Rubbed and on a bed of onions and heated covered to 140 internal. It was heavenly. Perfect medium rare and juicy. Great beef flavor without all the fat.

In retrospect I should have browned it in an iron pan with olive oil to start.

Could have done it on the grill, maybe I should have. But it was so good as it was. Leftovers tonight.

My iPhone 6 Plus is about 2 ½ years old. A fossil by mobile phone standards. The phone is beginning to show some wear. The processor is slow operating the newest software. There are a few scratches on the outside. Even an internal cable had to be reattached just last week at the Apple Store. Yet still, I hold in my hand more computing power than was carried in Apollo 8 though 17 combined.

I treat my Apple devices with some reverence because of their superior design, longevity, and their ecosystem of all their devices working in harmony.

And so, I was appalled today when an AT&T customer service guy suggested I blow common compressed air up the largest oriface on my phone to clean it. Suggesting impurities had penetrated an area that was magical had never even crossed my mind. I was taken aback.

We are talking about the earphone jack long ago closed to the world in China. Never to be opened again I assumed.

A product so great it becomes cultural currency.

I blasted common unsanctified air up there and the ground did not split open. And my earbuds are working.

About Me

That’s wReggie with a silent “W” like Wrangler, wrench, write and wrong, and now new and improved with a lower case “w” with all the cutting edge sophistication of eBay or iPhone. Some words need a "W" like "one". What's that about?
I love to travel and observe the world. I married my teenage sweetheart who is still my first wife. I guess you can call me an animal lover too with 4 border collies, 3 horses, two cats, 21 chickens and one Brine Shrimp. I have a deep love and respect for bacon and club sandwiches and take convenience of gravity for granted.
Finally, I love to laugh.